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Britain on Film

Series 1

Episode 9: Country Living

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

The series looking at the culture, economics and society of 1960s Britain turns its attention to one of our great national treasures - the countryside. Drawing on the archive of high-quality colour films produced by the country's biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, this film shows how new technologies and production methods were changing the face of agriculture and records how country life was adapting to the new economic and moral realities of a fast-changing nation. Show less

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